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...Latin nightclubs put on shows until 3 in the morning. In a public wedding one Carl H. Burg, dressed as a Spanish caballero, was married to one Margaret E. Clark, clad in a wedding gown of tobacco leaves. A Cuban girl named Pilar Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter...
Another aspect of this fable of many facets is that beauty and comedy and tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood...
SHADOWS OF THE SUN-Alejandro Perez Lugin; trans. by Sidney Franklin-Scribner ($2.50). Bullfighting novel by a late Spanish journalist, translated by a U. S. matador...
...Because our studio telephones have been cut off," shouted Senor Ramon Perez, "we have moved to the power station on Mixcoac Hill. We shall continue to broadcast without food or sleep until the Ericsson Telephone Co. pays us 13,000 pesos for three months' back pay! We represent 62 Station XEAL employes! The orchestra will now play 'Carioca...
...American Radio Co. on the fourth day sent a check for the full 13,000 pesos ($3,621), applied for receivership. The Red Cross fed grapes and milk to the prostrate strikers. Four who disobeyed orders and ate sandwiches grew violently ill. Senor Ramon Perez announced a new mass hunger strike record of 106 hours, added that he had established Mexico City's individual record with 104 sleepless. foodless hours at the microphone. History's longest continuous broadcast thus came...